iPhone 6(S)/Plus What's old is new again…sort of

[eyoungren]

So about four years ago I got my daughter a new iPhone SE2 to replace this phone, my wife's old iPhone 6s (Rose Gold). Primarily this was because the battery was bad and my daughter had cracked the screen.



It's been sitting on my desk since while my daughter continues to use her SE2. My daughter never asked for it back. I figure four years is enough time for her to say something about it.

So, I wiped it, and then added my Apple ID. I also changed things around to how I like it. Finally, I ordered a screen protector. Now, I'm not a user of screen protectors. However, it is extremely unlikely that this screen will ever be replaced (and the battery too) and I'm not too interested in slicing my fingers on glass shards. This is a protective measure and I have two replacements (I ordered a 3pack).

So, there we are. Screen is still entirely usable and with the protector I don't have to worry about my fingers.

Here is a better shot with a white background so the cracked screen is visible.



Aside from the battery which is 66 percent and requires the phone to be connected to power, its all still working.

 

[rwh63]

not an SE1?

 

[eyoungren]

not an SE1?

No, this phone is the 6s.

But if you're asking why I didn't get my daughter an SE1, it was 2022 and the SE2 was available. My son though has both the SE1 and SE2 (his current iPhone).

 

[Fred Zed]

Lovely post. I seem to enjoy reading your posts more often than not, thanks. 🙏🏼

 

[davigarma]

So about four years ago I got my daughter a new iPhone SE2 to replace this phone, my wife's old iPhone 6s (Rose Gold). Primarily this was because the battery was bad and my daughter had cracked the screen.

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It's been sitting on my desk since while my daughter continues to use her SE2. My daughter never asked for it back. I figure four years is enough time for her to say something about it.

So, I wiped it, and then added my Apple ID. I also changed things around to how I like it. Finally, I ordered a screen protector. Now, I'm not a user of screen protectors. However, it is extremely unlikely that this screen will ever be replaced (and the battery too) and I'm not too interested in slicing my fingers on glass shards. This is a protective measure and I have two replacements (I ordered a 3pack).

So, there we are. Screen is still entirely usable and with the protector I don't have to worry about my fingers.

Here is a better shot with a white background so the cracked screen is visible.

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Aside from the battery which is 66 percent and requires the phone to be connected to power, its all still working.

After high school and college, he returned it to me with a few scratches, but it works perfectly. A few days ago, they sent out a security update (15.8.8) for older devices. 🙂

 

[LeafsFanNL]

I have a 4 that still works fine, I charge it up every two or three months.

 

[eyoungren]

I have a 4 that still works fine, I charge it up every two or three months.

I tend not to turn my devices in when I upgrade. I've got everything I've used from 2007 up, including a few devices I did not use as actual primary devices. Unfortunatately, my Sanyo Katana and HTC Touch Pro aren't really working now.

I do have the 4s I got my son for $20 from a member here though. Got it for his 15th birthday (2018), he let me have it when I got him an SE for his 16th birthday.

 

[eyoungren]

I call this the 'Stack'. Some years back, Bjango offered an iStat Server app with their iStat Menus app for Macs. I downloaded at some point the early viewer and later viewer versions for iOS.



The silver iPhone 5 is monitoring my Mac Mini (Snow Leopard only) so is using the older viewer. The black/slate iPhone 5 is monitoring my Mac Pro and the iPhone 6s is monitoring my MacBook Air, which is sitting in clamshell mode underneath that 8th gen iPad.

PS. The mouse and keyboard control the 8th gen iPad, not the Mac.

 

[GMShadow]

I have a 6S+ I picked up as a 'low use' device a few years back, sadly the seller advertised it as a 64GB unit but it was only 16GB and I didn't feel like fighting for a return.

It was fine for a few years for certain stuff, probably still fine for music playing honestly.

 

[eyoungren]

I have a 6S+ I picked up as a 'low use' device a few years back, sadly the seller advertised it as a 64GB unit but it was only 16GB and I didn't feel like fighting for a return.

It was fine for a few years for certain stuff, probably still fine for music playing honestly.

In the picture I have above, that's a 6+ in front and a 6s+ in back. My 6s+ is my secondary phone and has a SIM. It goes with me on walks or in any situation where I feel my primary phone could be damaged. The 6+ I've mainly been using to stream music so far.

 

[Pacific1972]

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OS X Lion 10.7​

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Windows 7 (Bootcamp)​

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This was one of my old iMacs - this one is now in my Workshop Shed - and I like the iconic white design from Apple !
Furthermore I think (for other old Apple iMac I have) to install Linux LINGMO OS to manage lower resources...​

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☺️ ...sorry, wrong thread ! 😉
But what I want to communicate: look for the old iMac machines with 2 / 4 / 6 / 8 GB RAM !
Perhaps you can use them with an Up-to-Date Linux System like LingMo OS (known Desktop)
😉 -> DOSBox included !​

 

[FeliApple]

I think it’s great that your 6s is still in-use, I have two 6s on iOS 10 and 13 which I use for music and still work well, barring the battery life on the iOS 13 one, but for music it’s fine.

Like you, I also like to keep my older iOS devices in active use, and I do miss the home button design sometimes, so I grab then and use them. Since I use them for music, battery life doesn’t really matter (even degraded and updated devices are fieb for music).

Since I don’t have either of my 6s with me, here’s a picture of my iPhone 8, running iOS 14 with 76% health, still like-new battery life because iOS 14 is good, and perfectly capable of being a music device:

 

[winxmac]

iPhone 6S, one of the last models that do not have the overprocessing that newer models have.

With an iPhone 6S, iPhone SE 2016, or iPhone 7, you can still get natural looking photos without the need for 3rd party camera apps. To get a natural looking photo when using newer iPhone models, you would need to download apps like Halide or Moment.

I'm thinking of putting my Nikon DSLR camera on a hiatus and use my iPhone 6S as my primary camera instead. Looking back, how I wish I got the iPhone 6S Plus instead, since it has optical image stabilization which the smaller one lacks.

I also miss the small size of iPhone SE 2016, although in its place, I have the iPhone 5c.

 

[FeliApple]

iPhone 6S, one of the last models that do not have the overprocessing that newer models have.

With an iPhone 6S, iPhone SE 2016, or iPhone 7, you can still get natural looking photos without the need for 3rd party camera apps. To get a natural looking photo when using newer iPhone models, you would need to download apps like Halide or Moment.

I'm thinking of putting my Nikon DSLR camera on a hiatus and use my iPhone 6S as my primary camera instead. Looking back, how I wish I got the iPhone 6S Plus instead, since it has optical image stabilization which the smaller one lacks.

This is interesting to me, also I know very little about this. I’ve heard about people complaining about the over processing on modern iPhones, but my question is… how modern exactly? What’s the newest iPhone that did not have this overprocessing?

I also miss the small size of iPhone SE 2016, although in its place, I have the iPhone 5c.

I wish I had the 1st-gen SE on a good iOS version! It would be my favourite iPhone by far. Sadly I never had one.

I do have the 5c though! But it’s unusable on iOS 10 (it was on iOS 9 and it bootlooped and I couldn’t get it out with any tool so I had to restore), and it’s 8GB, so I can’t even use it for music. Do you use your 5c? If you do, for what? Is it of a larger capacity?

 

[winxmac]

Do you use your 5c? If you do, for what? Is it of a larger capacity?

Yes, it is 32GB and I use it for classic looking photos and videos, something that we lost ever since Apple relied more on computational photography. It is 33mm although not the same as 35mm of iPhone 4S.